Thanks for that idea basspenguin! What else do you think I could do to resolve my lag problems? My system is a fairly nice gaming PC so I'm not lacking at all hardware wise I don't think. Currently Construct 2 says the approx download size of my game is 129.6 mb and memory usage is at 661.4 mb, so it's kinda big but I have 8gigs of RAM an i3-2120 3.3ghz CPU and a GTX 660 Ti GPU which I'm sure it barely uses. Also it's coming off of a sata II SSD. Is there a thread on these forums that has a list of things to do to increase performance? When you said "But honestly their are other ways to resolve performances issues too. Make sure to check a few of those out." What were you referring to? Please let me know soon and thanks again! <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Hi all! I have been having some lag issues lately most likely due to how long my level is getting. So I thought of two things that when working together might help. But I would like your help and opinion. Firstly creating a series of gates throughout my level that my main sprite could not pass through until he finished all of the objectives between each one. Secondly after he passed through a gate have it dump all of the level data behind him and not allow him to go back unless the layout was restarted.

   Would that help lessen the lag that I get half-way through my current level?(which I am still expanding further) And if so how would I go about dumping parts of the level data within the same layout? I'm pretty sure I know how to setup the gates it's just the level dumping that I'm not sure how to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Thanks for the suggestion Thndr, but when I put trigger once on top nothing happens... You wouldn't happen to have an example on how to make events for a health bar that refills would you? Let me know, thanks!

Hey Pixel. Well I set it to less than 5 because if I had five I don't want it going off and busting out of my Health bar frame.

Hi alspal, thanks for the response. It would help me greatly if you could tell me how you would make an event similar to this but the right way please. Thanks again.

Hi all! It seemed like on the older version of construct 2 my health bar functioned normally. But ever since I updated to r132 I have had strange problems. For instance I set up an event like this:

EventCondition1(<system> compare variable "Score" is greater than or = to 25)

EventCondition2(<player> compare instance variable "life" is less than 5)

EvnetCondition3(<system> trigger once while true)

Action(<player> add 1 to "Life")

So I have a max of 5 life, and with this event if I'm below 5 life and I hit 25 or greater score my life bar should refill by 1. That part works, but for some reason if I still have 5 life when I hit 25 or greater score I become invincible!!! According to my logic the event shouldn't activate if I have 5 health, but my health bar will not go down after this. Is my logic correct? Is this a bug? Any help or information on this would be great! Thanks in advance.<img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> And this is just 1 of 3 strange things that have happened to my game recently.<img src="smileys/smiley19.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Thanks for responding BluePhaze! I am changing directions with simulate platform left and right. And my sprite only has 1 frame, his collision is a bounding box. Please let me know what you think I should do, thanks! <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Any thoughts from you expert guys? <img src="smileys/smiley17.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Nevermind I got it. <img src="smileys/smiley36.gif" border="0" align="middle" /> Thanks for all the help!

Hey Pixel perfick, thanks for the response! I'm using triggers now and it only goes up 1 health chunk at a time yay. But now if my health is full and I have not taken any hits by the time I hit the set score the health bar with grow 1 piece more than my max health each time conditions are met. Is there a quick event or something I could add that would not let it grow beyond 5? Thanks much for any feedback! <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

Greetings everyone. I set up a life bar for my main hero awhile ago, and it has been draining fine until I decided that I wanted it to regenerate 1 health per a certain amount of points earned. My event looks like this:

Event condition(<system> <compare variable> "score" greater than or equal to 25)

Action(<Hero> <add to> instance variable "Life" +1)

My hero has a max life of 5 chunks in the bar that he starts out with, but when he hits 25+ score and the above event activates the health line inside the health bar frame grows and shoots across the entire top of my screen! I can then get hit as many times as I want because of the ever growing health bar... Am I doing something wrong? I have my health bar set up just like Kiyoshi's guide showed in the tutorials section of scirra.com with my own graphics of course. Link: Kiyoshi's Life bar guide. Can anyone explain why something like that would happen just to add a single chunk back onto my health? Thanks in advance! <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle">

Hi everybody! I am having problems making enemies move using platform simulate movement. All of my enemies before were just using a bullet behavior, but I wanted to make them jump so I am trying to switch. I have their events set up just like in the "How to make a platform game" guide. But when my enemy hits an edge marker to flip direction he glitches out flashing rapidly and teleporting to both edge markers nonstop! So I can't even get him to move left and right let alone jump(which I would like to get set up after I can find a fix for this). Does anyone have any ideas for me that could help him stop bugging out? Anything would be great, thanks! This is the page I modeled my events from: How to make a platform game